[…] A child at the
Monster Mash received a fun-size box of Dots candy, police said. An examination
of the box showed it had been opened and then glued back shut.

"Dots candy
routinely come in assorted colors in each box. This box, once opened by the
resident tonight, revealed that all the Dots inside were the same color -
red," Sgt. Jeremiah Dunn said. "It is unknown if the candy inside the
box was also tampered with."

One end of the
candy box showed a glob of glue under the flap, a sign that it had been
tampered with, Dunn said. […]

CAUTION: It was
brought our attention by a couple people that some candy passed out in town
today is very suspicious. If you and your children have Lemonheads from trick
or treating today please double check them. There are multiple instances of the
packages being opened slightly and the candy itself looking disorted. Please
check all candy before letting anyone eat it!

The Lake County
Sheriff's Office reported Monday that a needle device commonly used by
diabetics to check sugar levels in the blood was found inside a child's
trick-or-treat candy bag on Sunday in the Cambridge subdivision of Beach Park.

A family called
sheriff's deputies after they found the item in their child's bag, but they
were unsure of who placed the needle inside the bag of treats or when it
occurred, said sheriff's spokesman Det. Christopher Covelli. The device is used
to prick the tip of a finger to check blood sugars, he said.

Deputies conducted
a search of the neighborhood, going door-to-door in areas where the family had
been trick-or-treating, and Covelli said detectives are trying to determine
whether or not it was intentionally placed inside the child's bag. […]

COAL TOWNSHIP —
Officers said a Coal Township man allegedly placed a 4 1/2-inch hunting knife
in a Halloween basket of a 3-year-old on Saturday and warned the child to be
careful because "it's real," according to Coal Township police.

Harold Carter, 35,
was arrested after police said they were stopped by the parent of the child and
explained the incident and showed police the knife, according to court
documents. […]

Hours after
issuing a warning over sewing needles found in at least three Halloween
chocolate bars in east Ottawa, police now say the report was "unfounded."

"Our
completed investigation has confirmed that the complaint was unfounded,"
police tweeted at 11:40 a.m. "There was no tampering with candy by a
stranger." [“[N]o tampering with candy by a stranger” is a euphemistic way
to say the child did it. – Brian]

Police had said an
Ottawa child bit into a chocolate bar containing a needle — but was not injured
— after trick-or-treating around Meadowbrook Road in the east end.

The child's mother
called 911 around 10:30 p.m. on Halloween to report the dangerous candy after
finding needles in two more chocolate bars, police said. […]

The Ottawa Police
Service said Tuesday an investigation has shown that a report that needles had
been found in a child’s Halloween candy was “unfounded.”

“Our completed
investigation has confirmed that the complaint was unfounded. There was no
tampering with candy by a stranger,” police tweeted shortly before noon.

Police said that,
after a meeting with the child and his parents, it was determined the child
made up the story and there would be no charges in the incident.

The shocking
report had swept across social media Tuesday morning after police said a parent
in the Meadowbrook area called Monday night to say their child had bitten into
a chocolate bar and found a needle. The parent checked the rest of the candy
and found needles in at least three individually wrapped chocolate bars.

The finding of a
syringe in a Halloween treat bag last week in Brandon has been blamed on the
actions of a pet cat.

Last Monday,
Brandon police officers responded to a report that a syringe was located in a
bag that was used by kids to trick-or-treat. A 13-year-old girl and 15-year-old
girl told officers that they found the unused syringe in a treat bag after
returning home on Halloween.

The syringe, which
according to police was an unused needle with a cap on it, was found loosely in
the candy. It wasn’t concealed within any treats.

This morning,
police issued notice that the incident was not malicious in nature. The syringe
was knocked into a bowl of Halloween treats by a pet cat that spilled a box of
insulin syringes.

The syringe was
then unintentionally put into the treat bag.

Police say this
was the only incident of this type reported to police, and that any references
to a seven-year-old child being involved that were reported at the time have
been determined to be false.

Amherst [NS]
police are investigating after a local family says a small white pill was found
in a bag of jellybeans, part of a young girl's Halloween candy stash.

Police said the
girl was trick-or-treating in downtown Amherst on Monday evening. The Amherst
Police Service said it learned about the pill through a Facebook post and
reached out to the family. The family told police they found the pill when they
were going through the girl's candy bag.

Const. Randy
Babineau said the pill looks to be an "illicit drug of some sort."
Police are sending it to Ottawa for forensic testing and will continue the
investigation based on those results.

BARNEGAT – Police
are urging residents to carefully inspect Halloween candy after a child found a
small pin in the center of a Kit Kat candy bar collected from a home in the
Timbers section of township, Police Lt. Keith Germain said.

"It appears
the packaging had been tampered with," he said. "The kid kind of
broke the bar in half and observed it." […]

A syringe with a
small amount of clear liquid but no needle was found in an 11-year-old Lake
Villa boy's trick-or-treat bag after he made the rounds in the Painted Lakes
subdivision on Halloween.

Police Chief Craig
Somerville said authorities received a call about the syringe just before 7
p.m. and the family said they had been going door to door in that subdivision
on the northeast side of town getting candy. He said there were no other
reports of suspicious activity, and the syringe and liquid has been sent to the
crime laboratory for analysis. […]

Young Windsor mom
Angela Magyar assumed her Forest Glade neighbourhood was safe for
trick-or-treating with her daughter — but that was before she discovered a
sewing needle embedded in a piece of candy on Halloween night.

“I’m just in
shock,” said Magyar, 25. “It just goes to show you what kind of people there are
in Windsor.”

Magyar said she
and her boyfriend Jaime Hernandez took their two-year-old daughter Ava on a
long trick-or-treating trip on Monday evening, visiting homes on three streets:
Lynngrove Crescent, Esplanade Drive, and Melville Drive.

Magyar estimated
they stopped at more than 100 addresses that evening. It was the last of a
series of trick-or-treating trips her little family had taken over the weekend,
including visits to Halloween-themed events at the Children’s Safety Village,
Walkerville and Tecumseh Mall.

According to
Magyar, blind luck led to her stumbling upon the dangerously tainted candy — a
miniature Mars Bar with a sharp metal spike.

“As soon as we got
home, I dumped everything out and was checking (the candy),” Magyar said. “It
poked me. I gave it to my boyfriend, he was feeling it, and it poked him, too.”

Magyar said closer
inspection revealed that a steel sewing needle had been shoved into the
chocolate bar length-wise. The spike was long enough to pierce someone pressing
the wrapper, but not long enough to be obvious.

Hernandez pulled
the needle all the way out of the candy. Magyar said it looked like a sewing
needle with its eye loop broken — so that it would be sharp on both ends. […]

Du Quoin Police investigating incident in
which 'pill' was found in cookie

Stephanie Esters

Du Quoin Police
are looking into how a substance that looks like a pill might have found its
way into a cookie given out on Halloween night.

The object was
discovered in the cookie by an adult relative of the child who received it, Du
Quoin Police Chief Jamie Ellermeyer said.

He said Du Quoin
police investigators do not believe the couple who handed out the cookies, who
appear to be in their 60s, bore any responsibility for the object being in the
cookie. He said investigators said the object had a minty smell. It will be
sent to the crime lab for testing.

He said the couple
received the cookies, which he described as Oreos, from another source and was
trying to help.

"We
definitely believe that the people who handed it out had no ill malice in this
whatsoever," Ellermeyer said. "We just believe that it was a
situation (in which) someone else put it in there."

Ellermeyer said
the couple gave about out 24 cookies and this is believed to be the only one
that sparked a complaint.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.
-- For most kids last night's trick or treating was fun, and a good way to load
up on sweets.

But not everyone
came away all smiles, as it was more trick than treat for some metro kids.

“They asked me to
have candy about halfway through, and I said 'no, wait until we get home. Let's
spread all the candy out, just to check.' That's what we did growing up,” said
David Ayers.

Ayers was heading
home with his 11-year-old twins, Carley and Carson, after trick-or-treating in
Brittany Woodscastle, a KCMO neighborhood near Zona Rosa.

"We got back
in the car, and that's when they both yelled at me, 'hey look. There's a razor
blade,' and I said 'no there's not. Let me see it,' and they pulled out the big
box blade-looking thing, and I was just in shock,” Ayers added.

He said it was
sitting right on top of the candy, with the box blade out about an inch or so.
[…]

In another nearby
neighborhood, Clayton Meadows between 68th street and Waukomis off 169-Highway,
other kids got "screwed." Someone handed out a note [“You got
SCREW-ED”] and a four-inch screw. […]

The Centralia
Police Department is investigating a report that two teens were sickened after
eating Halloween candy Monday night, but police do not believe the girls were
intentionally exposed to any “harmful substance.”

At 9:06 p.m. on
Monday, police and EMS responded to the 1100 block of South Pearl Street in
Centralia after receiving a report that two 13-year-old girls were sickened
after eating candy after trick-or-treating.

The girls were
taken to Providence Centralia Hospital as a precaution.

Police
investigated the incident and learned that the girls only went to one residence
while trick-or-treating. They contacted the occupants of that house and found
that the candy they gave out was store-bought and had not been tampered with.
The resident voluntarily surrendered the candy to investigators.

Depending on the
outcome of medical tests, investigators might test the candy. […]

WINCHESTER – The
Frederick County Sheriff’s Office is reminding people to check their children’s
Halloween candy after a needle was found in a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup on
Tuesday.

Capt. Donnie Lang
said Tuesday that deputies received a call Tuesday from the “general area” of
Pioneer Heights, near Greenwood Road, that a 13-year-old had “found a needle”
in the single-serving of candy after opening it and pulling it apart.

“We’re really not
sure how the needle got there,” Lang said, noting that the Sheriff’s Office
wanted to reiterated the warnings it sends out every year.

He said the needle
was similar to a cloth [safety] pin, not a hypodermic needle.

CHRISTIANSBURG
(WSLS 10) Christiansburg Police received a report on Tuesday night in reference
to a 13-year-old girl who found what appeared to be a needle in a piece of Laffy
Taffy candy she obtained during trick-or-treating on Monday.

The girl’s parents
called police, and an officer responded to their Christiansburg home on Tuesday
night and confiscated the candy. The child did bite into the candy, which had
been wrapped in Laffy Taffy packaging, and was stuck by what appeared to be a
needle.

A report that a
Christiansburg teen bit into a needle placed in her Halloween candy is not
true, a town news release said Wednesday.

"After
further discussions this morning with the 13-year-old girl who reported an
object in her Halloween candy, Christiansburg Police have determined a false
report was made," said a short statement issued by Christiansburg
spokeswoman Melissa Powell. "The candy was not altered by a third party.
We have no additional information to release at this time."

The town had
announced Tuesday that a family reported their daughter had been stuck by a
needle found inside a piece of Laffy Taffy candy. The girl had received the
candy Monday while trick-or-treating in Christiansburg.

A Sharpsburg man
is looking for answers after reporting the discovery of a razor blade in his
teenage daughter’s Halloween bucket.

On Monday night,
Mike Bibler said he was going through his daughter’s candy after she returned
from trick-or-treating in the Kensington Estates neighborhood in Sharpsburg.

His daughter
Emily, 17, had been out for several hours with friends before returning home
around 8:30 p.m., Bibler said. As soon as she returned home, he dumped the
contents of her bucket onto a baking sheet to inspect the candy.

“Everything looked
okay to me,” he said. “I put each piece of candy back in the bucket
individually and gave it back to her."

As soon as Emily
returned to her room, she called out for her dad, saying something had poked
her while she was digging through the bucket.

“We dumped it out
again, and a tiny little razor fell out,” he said. “It looked like a disposable
razor someone had cut into pieces."[…]

[…] Walpole Police
are urging parents to check their children's candy after one child in their
town received a small bottle of vodka in their candy on Monday night. Police
added that a six year old discovered the bottle after trick-or-treating on
Haynes Street and Vane Streets in Walpole. […]

PRINCETON — Candy
discovered in Manlius was found to contain cannabis — and police are urging
parents to keep an eye out for more like it.

Bureau County
Sheriff’s Office reported today police are investigating an incident following
Sunday trick-or-treat in Manlius, where parents came forward with
suspicious-looking candy marked as “Crunch Choco Bar,” and the wrapper had
small pictures of cannabis leaves on it. The substance was field-tested and was
positive for cannabis.

Illinois Sheriff Passes Off Japanese Candy As
Marijuana-Infused Halloween Treat

Warnings of pot in trick-or-treat bags still
have no basis in reality.

Jacob Sullum|

On Monday the Bureau County, Illinois,
sheriff's office issued a press release
describing "an incident following Trick or Treat" in which
"parents came forward with suspicious looking candy marked as Crunch Choco
Bar," the wrapper of which "has small pictures of cannabis leaves on
it." According to Bureau County Sheriff James Reed, "the substance
was field tested and was positive for containing cannabis." The press
release closed by urging parents (as always!) to be
vigilant against tainted or sabotaged Halloween treats and asking for
information about "which residence provided this candy," which
supposedly was handed out in Manlius, a tiny town northwest of Princeton, the
Bureau County seat.Is this the long-awaited evidence that
malevolent strangers really are trying to get your kids high by slipping marijuana edibles into their trick-or-treat bags? Nope. As
an eagle-eyed blogger pointed out at
Dankspace.com, the picture accompanying Reed's press release shows Japanese
candy bars sold under the brand name Iroha Kaede, which is
a kind of maple tree. That's right: Those "small pictures of cannabis
leaves" are actually small pictures of maple leaves. […]

We first told you
yesterday about a woman who found a nail in a Tootsie Roll her daughter
received while trick or treating on Monday. Police say they’re taking all of
the complaints seriously.

It started with a
call Tuesday night to police. Katie Van Dyke found a nail had been pushed into
one of the pieces of candy her daughter was given while out trick or treating
Monday afternoon in Neenah. The publicity around the incident led to a second
call to police, another parent also claimed to have found a nail in a Tootsie
Roll collected by his kids.

According to
Neenah Police Chief Kevin Wilkinson, “In one case specifically, somebody had
found something, but they had already disposed of it so we weren’t really able
to follow up on that.”

Police are however
following up on another complaint. A suspicious substance was found in two
other pieces of candy, brought to the police department. Those items along with
the Tootsie Roll from Katie Van Dyke are all being analyzed for evidence. […]

RCMP are
investigating after receiving a complaint that sewing needles were found in two
full-sized chocolate bars handed out to trick-or-treaters on Halloween in
Cochrane.

Authorities say
they were contacted by someone who said they were checking their child's candy
after taking them trick-or-treating on the west side of Glen Eagles. They found
sewing needles in large O'Henry and Kit Kat bars. […]

PALO ALTO, CA -- A
mother in Palo Alto is upset after she found campaign stickers about the state
assembly race on her kids' Halloween candy.

Like many parents,
Tru Love did an inspection of her kids' Halloween candy.

As the assorted
candies fell out, she said she was shocked to see two large candy bars with
campaign stickers for a candidate running for state assembly. "Whoever did
this, they knew parents were going to be checking candy because that's what
every parent does when you come home from Halloween, make sure that
everything's safe, and that every parent would open the bag, and every parent
would see this candy," Love said.

Love says this is
tacky. The name on the stickers is Vicki Veenker, a Palo Alto attorney running
for state assembly. She said she had nothing to do with the stickers. […]

LEXINGTON, MO —
Two mothers in Lexington, Missouri are furious after finding a staple and a
thumbtack inside their children’s Halloween candy. Both mothers, who initially
believed that finding sharp objects inside Halloween candy was just a myth, are
now warning other parents to check their kids’ stash.

On Halloween,
Beverly Menad’s 8-year-old daughter Elizabeth was dressed as her best Elsa from
the movie Frozen.

She was thrilled
to pull down a lot of candy during her trick-or-treating.

But when Menad
examined it, she became concerned.

“I was poked by a
sharp object,” Menad said. “Upon further investigation, we opened it up and
there was a staple inside the candy bar.”

Menad discovered a
stable [sic] that was wedged into a Butterfinger chocolate bar.

Another neighbor
says her 10 and 15-year-old children found a thumbtack stuck into the bottom of
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.

“He noticed it was
open and he flipped it and out popped the thumbtack,” the mother said. […]

BEMIDJI—Officials
are are reminding parents to inspect of any Halloween candy or treats after a
person reported finding a needle inside a candy bar.

On Tuesday, the
Beltrami County Sheriff's Office responded to call in the 700 block of
Whisperwood Court Southwest in Grant Valley Township for the report of some
candy that had been tampered with, the sheriff's office said in a release.

The parent
reported finding a "fun size" Almond Joy candy bar that had obvious
package tampering. The packaging had been found torn open lengthwise and upon
inspection by the parent, found a silver sewing needle inserted into the candy,
officials said in the release. […]

So it shocked this
grandmother when she says she found medicine in her grandson’s Halloween candy.

“That’s my grand
baby but it could’ve been my friend’s children and all the kids that were with
us somebody I don’t know my heart if I would not have reported it and then seen
later on the news where a kid was at the hospital and ate some candy and they
derived it came from the basket… That would’ve crushed me.”

Michelle Coker
says she noticed something strange about a piece of candy in her grandson’s
candy after trick or treating.

She searched Google
with the letters on the package and what popped up was several sources for male
enhancement drugs. […]

HAMILTON COUNTY,
Ind. -- A Hamilton County teen is being treated for possible injuries after
police said she found metal in a piece of Halloween candy.

The 13-year-old
got the mini 3 Musketeers candy bar while trick-or-treating on Monday in the
Orchard Park neighborhood. Police say she was somewhere near 106th Street and
Westfield Boulevard.

Investigators with
the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office said the metal piece was part of a small
blade. The child was taken to the hospital to be treated for possible injuries
after she bit into the piece of candy and found the metal. […]

Parents said they
found screws and razors in their daughter’s Halloween bucket.

The parents sent
photos of the candy to Channel 9.

They said all of
the candy that had been tampered with was different.

They said it came
from the Long Creek Meadows subdivision in Dallas.

"She was
already in bed, but me and my husband got a hankering for some candy. So we
started going through it and we found a Snickers wrapper that had a little
puncture hole in it and when we opened it up there was a screw in it,” mother
Katie Smith said.

She said she
started going through the rest of the candy and found five other pieces that
had been tampered with.

She said she even
found the tip of a razor blade in one of the pieces.

GASTONIA, N.C. --
A family in Bessemer City says they discovered metal screws and a razor blade
in their Halloween candy.

Gastonia Police
say the family went trick-or-treating in the area of Ametrine Lane off Blue
Moss Drive in Gastonia.

Tuesday night, the
father began eating some of the haul when he spotted what looked like a piece
of a screw. After further inspection, the father located several more pieces
that had been tampered with-- one of which even reportedly contained a razor
blade. […]

The Calgary
[Alberta] Police Service has launched an investigation into the discovery of a
dangerous item inside a candy bar in a northwest neighbourhood.

According to
police, a child in the community of Rosemont discovered a sewing pin inside a
chocolate bar prior to consuming the candy she had received while
trick-or-treating. The girl’s mother notified police on November 1.

The child did not
leave the community while trick-or-treating and investigators are attempting to
identify the origin of the chocolate bar. […]

The Lompoc Police
Department is investigating two reports from parents who said they found metal
pins in their children's Halloween candy.

Police say the
parents of the children know each other, but were trick-or-treating in
different parts of the city Monday night; one on the northwest side and the
other on the east side.

One mother told
KSBY her child found the pin after biting into a small Kit Kat candy bar. She
took the needle and wrapper to police, who are sending them to a Department of
Justice lab in Fresno for testing.

Please make sure
to check all Halloween candy before consumption. Be on the look out for any
opened or damaged wrappers or packaging. If it does not look right, it probably
is not.

This picture added
was obtained trick or treating, in the Rogers Manor section of Falowfield Twp.
The wrapper had a whole in it and this long cylindrical item was placed in it.
It's believed to be graphite pencil lead.

ISHPEMING —
Authorities in the City of Ishpeming are urging parents to check their
children’s Halloween candy after a nail was discovered in a local child’s candy
bar.

Ishpeming City
Police say the child found the small nail in a mini candy bar they had obtained
while trick-or-treating within the city. The nail was noticed before the child
attempted to eat it, so no injuries resulted. Police say the nail was pushed
through the sealed wrapper, and the damage wasn’t very noticeable. […]

SCOTT COUNTY, IN
(WAVE) - Two needles have been discovered in Halloween candy in Scott County,
Ind., according to authorities.

On Friday the
Scott County Sheriff’s Office received information that a county resident had
found two sewing needles among Halloween candy from Monday night
trick-or-treating.

An investigation
revealed one needle was found in a sucker while another was found within other
Halloween candy collected that night. The complainant told a deputy that she
had visited the Scottsburg Square and a few other locations Monday.

There have been no
other reports similar to this taken by any other Scott County authorities,
according to the SCSO.

Police are
investigating another report of a tampered candy bar after a man bit down on a
needle.

A family in
Dartmouth contacted Halifax Regional Police on Saturday when a small needle was
discovered in a chocolate treat.

The victim had
unwrapped, and begun to chew, a candy bar from his grandson's pile and felt a
sharp pain in his mouth.

When he removed
the contents, he discovered a small needle with a yellow plastic ball on the
end of it.

The child to whom
the treats belonged to was trick or treating in the area of Waynewood Drive,
Brompton Road and the Bonnie Brae Trailer Park in Dartmouth.

This comes just
days after similar reports in HRM.

Police opened an
investigation on Tuesday after a 12-year-old boy cut his finger on a razor
blade in a chocolate bar. And a 13-year-old girl in Dartmouth was sorting
through her candy when she also spotted a razor blade.

Police say such
cases are difficult to investigate and past cases have had to be dropped due to
lack of forensic evidence.

"Found a piece of metal in a Wonderbar
after checking my son's candy last night."

Jeff Turl

City police are
investigating yet another incident of someone putting razor blades in child's
candy and handing it out during trick or treating Halloween night.

This time it's in
the Delaware, Douglas, and Hillcrest Street area of North Bay.

The family
victimized in this latest crime told BayToday, "Found a piece of metal in
a Wonderbar after checking my son's candy last night. We reported it to police
and my spouse went with police to show them what houses they went to. The
police took the candy bar so hopefully they'll find out which house it came from."

Police
spokesperson Marie Lugli says the family was going house to house between 5:30
and 6:30. They reported their find to police at 8:30 that evening.

"When they
dumped the candy on the floor the chocolate bar fell out of its wrapper and had
a razor blade in it so we're investigating," said Lugli."That's all
we have right now."

No other
complaints of tampered Halloween treats have been reported this year. […]

A San Juan mother
claims her 12-year-old son found a needle hidden in his Halloween candy.

Esmeralda Ozuna,
43, of San Juan said her son, Javier Ozuna Jr., was pricked by a needle on Nov.
1. He discovered the needle while eating candy collected on Halloween, when he
went door-to-door in a Pharr neighborhood.

“You hear it on
the news happening in other places, but I never expected it to happen to me,
especially to my son -- one of my kids,” Esmeralda Ozuna said.

Javier Ozuna said
he discovered the needle after biting into a candy bar.

“I just got a
candy and bit it, and got poked,” Javier Ozuna said.

“And he spit it
out like ‘Look mom.’ And I was like ‘What?’” Esmeralda Ozuna said. “I saw the
needle inside the candy. So I rushed him to the hospital. Luckily it was just a
poke on his gum.”

Esmeralda Ozuna
said the hospital ran tests and she’s waiting for the results.

“I’m hoping
everything comes out negative that they didn’t tamper with the needles,”
Esmeralda Ozuna said.

Esmeralda Ozuna
said she filed a report with the Pharr Police Department.

SYDNEY — Cape
Breton Regional Police are investigating after a Sydney area family reported
finding a needle inside an Oh Henry chocolate bar earlier this week.

The family
reported the incident to police on Sunday, after the needle was discovered
prior to the bar being consumed. They told police the candy bar had been
received by a child while trick-or-treating on Halloween night in the Cottage
Road, George Street, Bernard Lind Drive and surrounding area of Sydney. […]

A father found a
baggie full of pharmaceuticals mixed in with his child's Halloween-candy
collection, a PCSD report stated.

On Halloween night,
the father told deputies he'd taken his son and a group of kids
trick-or-treating in a nice neighborhood on the East Side, and everything had
seemed normal—he didn't remember any of the houses seeming weird or any
residents giving out anything other than candy. But when he was later looking
through his child's sack of goodies, he said, he found a small sandwich baggie
full of pills of all different shapes, colors and sizes—probably sugar free,
but definitely unhealthy for children.

At the time of the
report, deputies hadn't been able to determine whether the pill giveaway had
been an accident—a pill addict who'd misplaced their stash when sneaking candy
from the Halloween bowl, perhaps—or a deliberate poisoning attempt. The latter
was certainly a possibility, but it would seem to have been poorly planned,
since even small children would likely spit out such bitter "candy"
if they happened to try eating a pill, and the baggie was grungy, not
camouflaged to look like a candy bag. (Besides... well... wouldn't a pill
addict want to keep those things for themselves?)

No other children
in the neighborhood had received such a surprise in their trick-or-treating
bags, and ultimately deputies were unable to find the source of the fun-size
pill variety pack.